Georgia Power Unveils Atlanta’s First Smart Neighborhood

2019-08-17
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently helped unveil a new community of 46 smart townhomes in Atlanta. Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Alexander Fitzsimmons joined Building Technologies Office (BTO) Director David Nemtzow in Georgia to unveil Atlanta’s newest community, “Altus at The Quarter,” which will serve as a living laboratory for DOE researchers to evaluate how homeowners are using energy in a real-world, smart home environment. This research, along with what is being discovered in Altus’s sibling neighborhood of smart, single-family homes in Hoover, Alabama (Reynolds Landing), is instrumental to understanding how emerging smart technologies and distributed energy resources can impact energy efficiency, energy management and resiliency.
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